US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 7 for "UE positioning signal transmission during unconnected or inactive state" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,167, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"UE positioning signal transmission during unconnected or inactive state" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) for positioning includes: obtaining, at a user equipment (UE), a plurality of SRS transmission parameters; and transmitting SRS for positioning from the UE in accordance with the plurality of SRS transmission parameters while the UE is in an unconnected state, relative to a communication network, or an inactive state."

The...